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  Joni Aug 21, 01:26 AM

  Wow! I love the color scheme and the image!! You are definitely Ground Zero for design and technical web ideas! (By jove, I think I just came up with a new site motto for you, buddy!)
  
  Looks wonderful, Stuart!!
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  Thomasso Aug 21, 02:55 AM

  Hey Stu, Nice colour and layout. Nice big text and easy to read over the blue. Simple and right to the point. Nice.
  
  The mushroom cloud does cast a lot of attention to the fact that the Americans unloaded 2 atomic bombs on Japan 60 years ago August 1945. Most of the Cable channels on TV are putting little clips and promoting that event. This website must be attracting the attention of many international agencies around the world. So I’m sure your website must be getting extra hits becuase of this… he he he. Ground zero at least has great seats!
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 21, 12:55 PM

  Well spotted Tom. I don’t know if I’m getting any extra visits because of it though I get enough anyway. I’ve always wanted to get a decent mushroom in there somewhere, but the 60^th anniversary last week was certainly a good prompt for getting the design done.
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  Shadow Aug 21, 02:27 PM

  Love the colours and layout Stuart. Really, really nice.
  
  The best bit – the way that top ‘t’ in ‘the’ just sits perfectly on the edge ofthe cloud.
  
  In fact, I would go as far as to say that I think this design just explodes the previous into oblivion…
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  Zenith Aug 21, 02:51 PM

  Much much better than all that white (not that it looked bad, I’m just not a raving fan of white).
  
  The image sets it off very nicely, well done. :)
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 21, 03:04 PM

  Thank you Shadow. :) You realise that now you have mentioned it I won’t be able to alter that text? :grin:
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 21, 03:08 PM

  I’ve kept the textboxes nice and white for you Zenith. :grin:
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  joss Aug 21, 06:24 PM

  Very nice indeed Stuart. Love the colours and graphic. Very easy upon the eye too. Well done matey
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 21, 07:49 PM

  Cheers Joss. :)
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  Myisha Aug 22, 07:13 PM

  I like your new layout :D
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 22, 11:29 PM

  Thank you Myisha. How’s your own doing?
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  Jess Aug 23, 12:52 AM

  Love the new design, Stuart! :) The background is different from yesterday.
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 23, 01:24 AM

  Thank you. The other background was considered a little noisey when scrolling. :)
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  Jess Aug 23, 06:02 PM

  You changed the bg again. This one doesn’t tile well though.
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  Jess Aug 23, 06:03 PM

  Ooooh I like this striped one.
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 23, 06:09 PM

  So do I. It has all the right hues in there. It’s a long 50px tall section of the cloud compressed to 1px tall. Looks rather good doesn’t it? How about the little monograms?
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  Jess Aug 23, 06:47 PM

  I find them a little distracting. I keep thinking they’re clickable buttons. But they’re purdy!
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  Rick Silletti Aug 26, 05:03 PM

  I do like mother natures mushroom soup, I used to do those things for a living – yes sinister!
  I like both looks, new and old, can’t decide which is best.
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 26, 05:55 PM

  Well you’ll probably see both for a while Rick till I decide what to do with the Guest Block styling. :)
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  Katy Aug 28, 10:36 PM

  ooh, very nice :)
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Aug 29, 10:40 AM

  Thank you Katy. :)
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  webjones Sep 1, 11:52 AM

  Very nice. But when I tabbed from the ‘website’ box it shot me up to the top of the page!
  
  I like the color scheme and the positioning/contrasting of the background image. Stripes are good too.
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Sep 1, 02:18 PM

  Oh tabbing now are we? Who said you could do that? :grin: I haven’t actually looked at that yet webjones but as soon as I’ve re-sized the images that are now slightly too big I shall get onto it. I want to set them to a specific order anyway so now’s my chance. :)
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  Stuart (Author Comment) Sep 1, 06:23 PM

  I think that should have sorted it.